The brightest star of the constellation and the ninth brightest star in the entire sky. It does not rise above the horizon in our location, and it begins to appear above the horizon at a height of three degrees from the regions of Texas, Morocco, and Egypt. This pale blue star with a surface temperature of 15,000 ˚C has a magnitude of 0.5 on the sky and is located 139 light-years away from us. Its absolute luminosity is 3150 times greater than that of the Sun. Nearby, there is a wide double star p Eridani, whose components with a brightness of 6 mag can be distinguished with a small telescope.